Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
Keynote lecture on two strands of thinking in sustainability: advancement vs. apocalypse. Ecological Urbanism Conference, Harvard University, 3 April, 2009 | architecture lab
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Architectural Association School of Architecture presented their fourth annual summer pavilion series in Bedford Square , London England. Students Danecia Sibingo, Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, and Taeyoung Lee designed the 2009 summer project, drawing inspiration from the ancient Petra . The 28 layers of plywood flow in a self-assuming organic shape, appearing as an evolved object. This aesthetic recalls...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | yesterday
In today's dose of John King, the urban design critic does a rundown of downed projects in the city. Toyo Ito's Berkeley Art Museum? Check. Don Fisher's Presidio art museum? Check. Rem Koolhaas' Prada building, check. Renzo Piano's 1,200-foot-tall Transbay...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in Israel Fresh off of a landmark exhibition at MoMA , furniture-designer Ron Arad is rounding on a another milestone: In January, he'll complete The Design Museum Holon, in central Israel. Arad was born in Israel but made his career in London. Though trained as an architect at London's Architectural Association in the 1970s--a...
Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Today is the 65th birthday of Dutch architect and 2000 Pritzker Prize Laurette Rem Koolhaas and at an age when most have to legally retire he seems to be going as strong as ever and such I've decided to do a post devoted specifically to all things Rem. Happy Birthday. 1975 ::: sets up the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) 2000 ::: awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2005 ::: completes...
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Last week-end, I travelled to Hamburg to celebrate the birth of my brother's first daughter. Occasionally, I had the time to walk around a little bit and do some sketches. The new HafenCity is growing and and getting complete, with great architecture by Behnisch Architekten, Ingenhoven Architekten, Code Unique Architekten, Rem Koolhaas or Herzog & de Meuron. But there's still some very interesting...
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
Hello Beautiful! (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On this fine fall day I have an afternoon meeting near downtown Chicago. 17th floor. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Yes, that's Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall you see in the center. And Helmut Jahn's IIT dorm on the right, "kissing" Rem Koolhaas / OMA's student center just behind it - the one with the "groove tube" to dampen the sound of the elevated train as it roars through...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Klein Bottle House . According to the World Architecture Festival Awards, it's the best home of 2009. F-117 pilots, dorky Tron fanboys, and aliens all through the galaxy would agree. I'm in one of those categories. The Klein Bottle House—located in Rye, Australia—is made of concrete sheets and black metal, surrounded by trees and next to a beach. I like it, but if I had to choose something,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
" Who would want to be an architect? " the Times asks. In answering that question, the article focuses more or less entirely on London's Bartlett School of Architecture —whose students have been producing some amazing work lately, work that I have often posted about here on BLDGBLOG. Here , here , here , and here , for instance. But, the article claims, "Leave the future to Bartlett...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle ON ONE side of Flora Street is the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, an airy space designed by Norman Foster. Across the street is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a silver cube designed by Joshua Prince-Ramos and Rem Koolhaas. “Aesthetically, it’s stoic, even off-putting,” said the theatre manager,...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Facebook is, like, sooo September 2009. If you're an architect, there's a new social network in town: Architizer . According to Metropolis mag, a couple of starchitecture firms have already joined, including Archi-Tectonics, Steven Holl Architects, and OMA, as well as a bunch of lesser known firms. So far the site seems light on the LA architects, but we did notice Tom Kovac Architecture , INABA ,...
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Rotterdam's new city hall will be the greenest building in the Netherlands, thanks to designer Rem Koolhaas. The building's modular design will require fewer resources to build, and is easy to add to if the structure ever needs to expand....
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I like Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas ' creations so much that I want to have his babies. OK, that part is a lie, but I would certainly have his Tony-Stark-worthy Maison à Bordeaux . His new Stadskantoor is quite impressive too. Stadskantoor will be constructed at Rotterdam's City Hall. Designed by OMA, Werner Sobek, and engineers ABT, the building has a modular structure....
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